Through a chain of energizing events, this TV series relates genuine occasions from 1960s. A chain of secretive bodies named Project Blue Book show up and nobody knows its reality. The expert astrophysicist Dr. Allen Hynek is entrusted to research at this abnormal case and make sense of the truth of these UFOs.

Robert Zemeckis has crafted a period-setting UFO-investigative series that's polished and well-crafted but uninspired. It keeps more towards the well-worn paths rather than trying to carve out its own niche.

If Hynek can't always believe his eyes, he's just as skeptical of the top brass explaining the inexplicable with talk of experimental aircraft and Soviet surveillance devices. We know better, mainly because we've seen it all before.

Even if the show has trouble finding its sea legs, it's a perfectly fun bit of distraction that could find an admirable groove if it proves willing to take a step back and make some calculated adjustments.

In all, the six episodes of Project Blue Book did just enough to keep me moving forward in the hopes that everything will click. Even if the storytelling comes together at some point, I'm not sure what can be done to make Hynek and Quinn a better duo.

Amid the period costumes and wrenched drama there is the hint it's not all fantasy due to the network presenting it. But it looks to be struggling between using as source material recently declassified government files or X-Files reruns.